See also: trugen

German edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German triegen, from Old High German triugan, triogan, from Proto-West Germanic *dreugan.

The expected form is earlier modern German triegen, the vocalism -ü- being due to influence by lügen (to lie, to tell lies), itself originally liegen and thus a rhyming word.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʁyː.ɡən/, [ˈtʁyː.ɡən], [ˈtʁyː.ɡŋ̍]
  • (file)

Verb edit

trügen (class 2 strong, third-person singular present trügt, past tense trog, past participle getrogen, past subjunctive tröge, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to deceive
  2. (intransitive) to be deceptive

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Verb edit

trügen

  1. first/third-person plural subjunctive II of tragen

Further reading edit

  • trügen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • trügen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • trügen” in Duden online
  • trügen” in OpenThesaurus.de